Chinese Immigration in the U.S. in the 19th Century. Columbia Professor Mae Ngai explains why the Chinese were coming to the U.S. during the late 1800s.

Back in St. Louis, the plight of Chinese immigrants followed a similar path as their countrymen on the West Coast, though thankfully there was no outbreak of violence seen in the late 19th century.

Mae Ngai, author of [The Chinese Question], talked about the late 19th century California gold rushes and the friction between Chinese immigrants and white settlers. She described how, during this ...

The Papers Late-19th-Century Chinese Immigrants Had to Carry To Prove Their Legal Status. By Rebecca Onion. Jan 30, 2015 10:07 AM. Copy Link Share Share Comment Copy Link Share Share Comment ...

This law prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. It also made Chinese immigrants permanent aliens by excluding them from U.S. citizenship. By the early 20th century, Columbus had a booming ...

Frederick Douglass' 1869 speech defending Chinese immigration has ... Immigration from China and Japan was the main target of restrictionists in the 19th century, much like Hispanic immigration ...

Looking back as a historian of immigration and religion, I'm struck by three changes in U.S. views of immigration over the course of the 19th century.. Religion, more than race. By the 20th ...

The ban was part of rising anti-Chinese sentiment and broader anti-Asian legislation in the 19th century. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed to stop Chinese immigrants from becoming ...

Throughout the lecture, she analyzed anti-Chinese violence and expulsions in the U.S. West in the late 19 th century. Lew-Williams documented more than 100 attempts of anti-Chinese expulsion within a ...

In my family, tales of anti-Chinese racism are passed from one generation to the next. A century ago, my great-grandparents, Wallace and Tungert Chong, were forced to get special documentation ...

An archeologist works at the site where 16 tombs belonging to 19th-century Chinese immigrants were discovered, at Huaca Bellavista in Lima, Peru. AP Photo/Martin Mejia. Thousands of ...

In fact, as Prof. Ferdinand Philip Victoria's research has shown, Chinese immigrants in the 19th century were engaged in the business of narcotics and illegal gambling (among others), often with ...